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[Brian Sidebotham <brian.sidebotham@...>]

2009/5/9 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@...>:
> hvontres@... wrote:
>> Svn rev 1753 introduced the use of BOOST_REVERSE_FOREACH in cvframe.cpp Unfortunately this does not build on my Ubuntu 8.04 machine which is still stuck with boost 1.34. It looks like the minimum version of boost is now 1.36. This should either be fixed or documented someplace.
>
> I knew this would eventually be an issue.  It appears that I will be one
> who has to raise the question.  What should be the minimum version of
> Boost that Kicad supports?  I am using 1.36 on all of my machines and
> the current release version is 1.39.  I will remove BOOST_FOREACH and
> BOOST_REVERSE_FOREACH and fall back to ptr_vector::interator and
> ptr_vector::reverse_iterator if support for Boost versions less then
> 1.36 required.  I guess switching from wxList to boost::ptr_vector was
> not as easy as I had expected.  Ah, no good deed goes unpunished ;)
>
> I will be without email for the next few days due to travel so I will
> not be able to commit any fixes until Tuesday at the earliest.
>
> Wayne
>

I just updated boost on my dev PC. I don't think it is unreasonable to
require developers to have certain minimum versions of the libraries
KiCad rely's on, if improving the codebase means requiring a more
recent version, then the new version should just be noted as required.
At the moment COMPILING.TXT mentions 1.34 as the minimum, I would say
this just needs changing to 1.36. At the moment 1.39 is current, so it
is not like the 1.34 requirement is up with the times.

Best Regards,

Brian.